The Sahara Desert is creeping into verdant southern Africa. To counter this desertification, the Community Of Sahel-Saharan States has launched the Great Green Wall, a project to create a tree belt across the continent from Dakar to Djibouti.
Slaves To Football
Shot in Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco and Europe, Slaves To Football is an undercover investigation into the trafficking of child footballers from West Africa to Europe by scammers, dodgy agents & clubs. This is the 23' version of the film we made for Al Jazeera English's People and Power strand.
Documentary
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Client: AL JAZEERA ENGLISH -
Partially blind & working Nigeria's streets aged 9, Aisha Sani Abdullahi's life chances were not great. But a chance meeting sent her life on a different path. Aisha's Song is a musically lush & beautifully shot film that tells a story of female empowerment from a place where women are often overlooked. Festival screenings include SXSW 2012, Camerimage 2011 & Brief Encounters 2011.
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Client: CURRENT TVProduced at a time when media hysteria about gun crime was at a zenith, this is a short prize winning feature about the life of a gun carrier in Peckham, South London.
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This is an excerp from a 30-min documentary we made about 2 Londoners running marathons in the North Pole and the Sahara Desert in order to raise awareness about the impact of climate change. Actor Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Show) did the voice over.